DiscountASP.NET Announced as Visual Studio Magazine 2024 Reader’s Choice Bronze Award Winner for Web Hosting

Takeshi EtoWe are proud to announce that DiscountASP.NET was named the Bronze Award Winner for the Web Hosting category in Visual Studio Magazine’s 2024 Annual Reader’s Choice poll. It’s the 30th year for their Reader’s Choice Awards!

We’re going on past 2 decades since we first launched our ASP.NET hosting services and we’re glad that our .NET hosting services are still resonating with Visual Studio developers.

Here’s a BIG THANK YOU to all who voted for us and thank you for your continued support!

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Google’s Mobile-First Deadline: What You Need to Know

John MeeksGoogle’s mobile-first indexing shift is finally here. After July 5, 2024, sites that don’t work on mobile devices will be removed from Google’s search index.

Here’s what you need to know to keep your DiscountASP.NET-hosted applications visible in Google search results.

In the past, mobile accessibility was a good idea. Now, it’s mandatory. If your site doesn’t load or render on mobile, Google will treat it as if it doesn’t exist. This doesn’t mean you have to abandon desktop-centric designs, but your site needs to work on mobile devices. If you’re maintaining an older site, check out how it loads on your phone’s browser. If it doesn’t work, you need to take action. Your goal is to make sure your site is mobile-friendly.

Google has announced that they will still use the Googlebot Desktop crawler for product listings and job sites. So if you develop e-commerce solutions or job boards, you’ll still see Googlebot Desktop crawler in your server logs. Make sure your user agent detection takes this into account.

Google set a hard deadline and is enforcing it: mobile accessibility is now required for search engine indexing. You need to make sure your DiscountASP.NET-hosted sites work on mobile devices. With some technical work now, you can keep your sites visible in search results.

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.NET 8 Hosting is now available

Takeshi EtoMicrosoft officially released .NET 8 on November 14, 2023. While it was always possible to deploy .NET 8 applications to our hosting environment using Self-Contained Deployment (SCD), we now have .NET 8 (ASP.NET Core 8) installed on our Windows hosting platform.

Therefore, customers can use Framework-Dependent Deployment (FDD) using Visual Studio 2022 to publish your .NET 8 (ASP.NET Core 8) applications.

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Happy Coding!

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DiscountASP.NET Wins Visual Studio Magazine 2023 Reader’s Choice Bronze Award for Best Web Hosting

Takeshi EtoI am proud to announce that DiscountASP.NET won the Bronze Award for the “Web Hosting” category in Visual Studio Magazine’s 2023 Readers Choice poll. This is the 29th year of these reader’s choice awards!

It’s been 20 years since we launched our ASP.NET hosting service. I’m glad to know that our services are still resonating with developers who use Visual Studio.

THANK YOU to all who voted for us and thank you for your continued support!

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DiscountASP.NET attains EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, UK Extension, and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Certification

Takeshi EtoLast year, the EU and US finally reached an agreement on a new EU-US Data Privacy Framework to replace the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which was struck down by an EU court some time ago. On July 17th, 2023, the US Department of Commerce officially launched of the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program and website.

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DiscountASP.NET is happy to announce that we have attained the EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification along with the UK Extension and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework Certification. We consulted with our privacy management solutions partner, TRUSTe (part of TrustArc) to help verify our privacy practices.

For more information about the Data Privacy Framework program, visit dataprivacyframework.gov. We have our updated our Privacy Policy and the Privacy Policy is posted online here.

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.NET 7.0 Hosting is now available

Takeshi EtoMicrosoft released .NET 7 in November 2022. While it was always possible to deploy .NET 7 applications to our hosting environment using Self-Contained Deployment (SCD), we now have .NET 7 (ASP.NET Core 7) installed on our Windows hosting platform. Therefore, customers can use Framework-Dependent Deployment (FDD) using Visual Studio 2022 for their .NET 7 (ASP.NET Core 7) applications.

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